Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Kuchipudi artist / musician Josyula Krishnamurthy passed
away in the early hours of September 1, 2014 around 2.30am
at his residence. He was 86 years old. Krishnamurthy who
started his art journey initially as a dancer, essaying
mostly the Sakhi roles was more interested in the music
aspect of Kuchipudi Yakshaganam and is a very well known
mridangam artist. He specialised in Sampradaya Kuchipudi
Yakshaganam talas / music and has the honour of
accompanying over 8000 programs during his life time.